How to Use cri de coeur in a Sentence

cri de coeur

noun

• McDougall’s book is, among other things, a cri de coeur.
  — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 3 June 2026
• Today, Season is his cri de coeur about how his plea has gone unheeded.
  — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• And so, her cri de coeur came out as one great, big, fat, satisfying moan of ecstasy.
  — Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
• His stress echoed the cri de coeur of many Russians struggling with the unchecked power of the police.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• This makes next week’s election look less like a cri de coeur from a minority faction and more like playing with fire.
  — Anna Wiene, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2021
• Their efforts to transcend their station leads to a stark climax that is a silent, anguished and haunting cri de coeur.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• And then why such a political cri de coeur from the inventor of a typewriter?
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• There is in the play this sort of cri de coeur from Priestly that's condemning bourgeois greed and narcissism.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
• With the global rise of authoritarianism, the new film is an urgent cri de coeur.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
• But was any Twitter cri de coeur more visceral than this one, from one Times colleague to another?
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• Baldwin’s essay is a cri de coeur on the banality of American life.
  — Time, 30 Apr. 2021
• Two years ago, a cri de coeur of an essay addressing why middle-aged women were overwhelmed and exhausted went viral.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• And those journalists deserve to be heralded — just not in this holier-than-thou cinematic cri de coeur.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• But The Brutalist is his grandest cri de coeur yet, a gamble with the audience’s attention that on the whole pays off.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
• Bukovsky’s uncompromising views should be seen as a cri de coeur from someone who devoted much of his life to fighting political tyranny.
  — Amy Knight, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• The relationship offered a path to forgiveness for the kind of character most millennial cris de coeur have been content to leave hanging.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 29 Nov. 2019
• Conceived as a cri de coeur against the then-rising wave of fascism sweeping across Europe, it was rejected by the organizers and never built.
  — Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
• This personal cri de coeur is echoed in the general complaint that presents have made the holidays too commercial, material and consumerist.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• But when Connor dies by suicide, Evan’s cri de coeur is mistaken as intimate correspondence between the two.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• But the book's millennial cri de coeur can also tip into navel-gazing indulgence, heavy with the undergrad fugue of late night dorm-room debates and clove-cigarette smoke.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Set in the hinterlands of Alberta, the movie focuses on several teenagers, both living and dead — a haunting that feels like a generational cri de coeur.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The book itself is a small-scale cri de coeur, animated by Coppola’s tenacity—by her insistence on tracing the contours of her own world, in writing.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
• On July 22, Epstein wrote a kind of cri de coeur, portraying himself as a victim of the #MeToo movement.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2026
• Above all, though, this outstanding teacher reminds us that no matter how emotional the cri de coeur, calculation underlies the poet’s ecstasy.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• Thus did the cri de coeur of solidarity with the Palestinians fade against the military and technological allure of Israel.
  — Peter Rough, National Review, 27 Sep. 2020
• But realizing the play’s own kind of mortality—its slow shift from urgent cri de coeur to period piece mined for pertinence—bathes it in a loving new light, one that Elliott teases out gracefully in this production’s finest scenes.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
• Jimmy exits Season 4 in a jubilant mood after persuading the legal review board to reinstate his license to practice law with what appears to be a genuine cri de coeur invoking his late brother’s memory.
  — Hugh Hart, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Jimmy exits Season 4 in a jubilant mood after persuading the legal review board to reinstate his license to practice law with what appears to be a genuine cri de coeur invoking his late brother’s memory.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• Even establishment news channels, generally averse to displaying the humanity of individual Palestinians, could not resist this cri de coeur of an innocent in peril.
  — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
• Soprano Rachel Nicholls’ subsequent letter to the editor criticized Broad’s cri de coeur for unduly burdening women, who, unlike men, lack the luxury of a default option.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2022